Friday, July 06, 2007

2007 Pancake Breakfast/Fly-in

Sparta Paul C. Miller Municipal Airport

Pancake Breakfast/Fly-in

July 15, 2007
7:30 am - 11:30 am

Pancake Breakfast in conjunction with Sparta Town and Country Days.
Sponsored by EAA Chapter 704, Sparta Lions Club, and Sparta BSA Troop 704.

Questions?
Contact Vic Johnston - 616.696.2895

President’s Message (July 2007)

Dear EAAers,

Let’s all thank John and Ken for such a dynamic, interesting, and informative presentation on the progress of John’s RV-7. It was also very pertinent for Jeremy and I, as we were working on JJ’s RV-3 at the time and many of our problems/questions were answered in their presentation. Would you believe that they threw that program together in less than 24 hours!?

For our meeting on the 9th we hope to have a tour of Dave Duperron’s SUPER Cub, and hopefully some dialogue from Dave to share with us some of his expertise. I think we should offer a prize to anyone who can find a flaw in the aircraft. Bet you can’t.

Also we has some unfinished business to cover regarding the Dawn Patrol Breakfast...mainly, which building we will have it in. John’s hangar does not have potable water, which is a concern of the Lions’ Club and the County Health Dept.

I will again have ol’Blue rolled out to give any Olde Eagles who missed the last meeting, an opportunity to sample some airspace before the meeting. If anyone else would like to give rides to some of our “grounded flock” have your plane(s) on the ramp at 6 pm.

Until next time,

-Vic Johnston

June (2007) Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes June 14, 2007
EAA Chapter 704 met on Monday, June 11, for its regular monthly meeting. The meeting was held at the Sparta Paul C Miller Airport pilot’s lounge with 25 members and guests present. The meeting was called to order by president Vic Johnston at 7 p.m.

The treasurer reported $1669.02 in the check book with all bills paid. We had received $270.00 from the village of Sparta for their 1/2 of the costs to provide cable internet service into the lounge to supply weather data etc.

P.J. (Newsletter Editor) was asking for current or corrected e-mail addresses from the membership and sent around a sheet to facilitate this. His idea is to send the newsletter by e-mail to as many as he can to reduce the postage costs.

Paul Zimmer agreed to serve as the Young Eagles coordinator to replace Kathy Hakeem who had to resign for personal reasons.

President Johnston stated we were sill looking for a Boy Scout troop coordinator to replace Glenn Holt who had to resign for health reason. John Gill announced he would be willing to fill this position.

John Kozal, Boy Scout leader for BSA Troop 704, reported on the activities of the troop. He stated that they had started out with 8 boys in the troop and have just added 5 more. They are going to BSA Camp Gerber in a few weeks and have had several camp outs all ready as well as some service projects. One of the parents has agreed to become assistant scout master. Kozal announced that the troop does not meet during the summer but will begin again in August. BSA Troop 704 is sponsored by EAA Chapter 704 and appears to be doing well under John Kozal’s leadership.

Paramount Aviation has made a request to be included on the 704 Chapter web site along with the others that are listed. The discussion that followed indicated that the web site is owned by P.J., Newsletter editor for EAA 704, for the use of the members of EAA 704 to provide information within the group. Those listed on the web site are members of the chapter whereas Paramount is not a member and is therefore not invited to be listed on the site.

A discussion was held relative to the July Pancake Breakfast.

The Sparta Pilot’s Association is holding a STOL contest on Saturday, June 16, at the Sparta Airport in conjunction with the open house being held that day from 11:00 a.m. til 3:00 p.m.. The STOL contest is being organized by Kathy Hakeem who is urgently seeking participants.

John Gill and Ken Mosely presented a program showing a selection of pictures depicting the complexities of the wiring of his RV-7 project. John and Ken have been faced with an awesome task as John is putting a very sophisticated electronic package in his airplane. As the pictures indicate and their comments confirm, they have done the near impossible in getting all the components in place and the associated wiring routed in proper fashion. They have made a very ambitious prediction of having the airplane flying in August —and they might just do that.

Meeting Adjourned

Jay Dean Sec/Treas EAA Chapter 704